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Truth shines the brighter, clad in verse.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Drink is the feast of reason and the flow of soul.
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To err is human to forgive, divine.
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The enormous faith of many made for one.
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I as little fear that God will damn a man that has charity, as I hope that the priests can save one who has not.
Alexander Pope
Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd and make the learned smile.
Alexander Pope
It is not so much the being exempt from faults, as having overcome them, that is an advantage to us.
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I lose my patience, and I own it too, When works are censur'd, not as bad but new While if our Elders break all reason's laws, These fools demand not pardon but Applause.
Alexander Pope
Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies, And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.
Alexander Pope
There are certain times when most people are in a disposition of being informed, and 'tis incredible what a vast good a little truth might do, spoken in such seasons.
Alexander Pope
A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.
Alexander Pope
Two purposes in human nature rule. Self- love to urge, and reason to restrain.
Alexander Pope
Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.
Alexander Pope
Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things To low ambition and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us, and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man A mighty maze! but not without a plan.
Alexander Pope
Extremes in nature equal ends produce In man they join to some mysterious use.
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And little eagles wave their wings in gold.
Alexander Pope
Pleas'd look forward, pleas'd to look behind,And count each birthday with a grateful mind.
Alexander Pope
All other goods by fortune's hand are given, A wife is the peculiar gift of Heaven.
Alexander Pope
Oh, when shall Britain, conscious of her claim, Stand emulous of Greek and Roman fame? In living medals see her wars enroll'd, And vanquished realms supply recording gold?
Alexander Pope
See Christians, Jews, one heavy sabbath keep, And all the western world believe and sleep.
Alexander Pope
The season when to come, and when to go, to sing, or cease to sing, we never know.
Alexander Pope
